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  Speaker 1: The following.
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  Speaker 2: He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the
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  Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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  Speaker 3: Cowboys.
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  Speaker 4: This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 5: What's up everyone, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. I am Nick
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  Speaker 5: Eatman here and we are wrapping up the month of October.
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  Speaker 5: I can't believe it's already been two months here in
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  Speaker 5: this Cowboys season obviously not going like the Cowboys had hoped,
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  Speaker 5: sitting at three and four as they head into this
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  Speaker 5: week's game against the Atlanta Falcons. Tough, tough team to
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  Speaker 5: kind of figure out as far as what to expect
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  Speaker 5: in the games. I mean we we kind of can
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  Speaker 5: see what the problem is with this football team, and
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  Speaker 5: it starts in the running game, whether you want to
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  Speaker 5: say running the ball stopping the on either way, the
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  Speaker 5: Cowboys are near the bottom, if not at the bottom
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  Speaker 5: of the league in those those two categories, and so
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  Speaker 5: can't stop the run or run the football, you're not
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  Speaker 5: gonna win a lot of games. So three sitting at
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  Speaker 5: three and four with those kind of stats is actually
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  Speaker 5: a little bit of a surprise, especially when you consider
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  Speaker 5: the injuries that they've had. But everyone's dealing with injuries.
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  Speaker 5: We saw that. We saw that last week against the
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  Speaker 5: forty nine ers as well, and the Cowboys got to
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  Speaker 5: figure out ways to overcome them. They really haven't done
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  Speaker 5: that in some of these games against a good competition.
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  Speaker 5: And the schedule doesn't get any easier at Atlanta this
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  Speaker 5: week and then of course Philadelphia, Houston at Washington after that.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, this feels like this game against the
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  Speaker 5: Falcons has won. The Cowboys certainly have to win all
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  Speaker 5: of them really at this point. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 5: when you're sitting at three and four, they're all they're
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  Speaker 5: all very very important to get where you want to go.
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  Speaker 5: All right, eight eight eight eight five five two two
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  Speaker 5: ninety seven is the number to call. We've got Pete
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  Speaker 5: on the line to start us off. So Pete in Connecticut,
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  Speaker 5: let's go.
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  Speaker 1: How's it going, Nick good? How are you good?
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  Speaker 6: I just want to bring a little sunshine on the
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  Speaker 6: sadness of the Cowboy situation right now. I still believe
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  Speaker 6: in Dak and I still believe that we're gonna sneak
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  Speaker 6: into the wild Card. And I think at this point
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  Speaker 6: we're having so many struggles on offense. Let's just give
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  Speaker 6: Jason Witten and des Brian.
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  Speaker 7: To call and get some heart back in that locker room.
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  Speaker 6: All right, thanks, Nick, have a great day, Bud.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Well, I don't know. I don't know about
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  Speaker 5: the heart in the locker room. I'll never say that
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  Speaker 5: and question anybody's heart, but I do think that, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if you need those guys. How about
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  Speaker 5: just the guys on the team, like the guys on
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  Speaker 5: the roster. You know, it's not it's injuries happened to
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  Speaker 5: everyone and so that's not necessarily excuses. But I can
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  Speaker 5: promise you this that nobody's dealing with with.
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  Speaker 1: You know, two guys that.
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  Speaker 5: Were the Defensive Player of the Year candidates, you know,
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  Speaker 5: for for Defensive Player of the Year in the NFL
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  Speaker 5: last year. They didn't win, but but you know two
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  Speaker 5: of the of the finalists or Micah Parsons and Deron
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  Speaker 5: Bland though those were those were big time players for
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  Speaker 5: the NFL last year, not just the Cowboys. So the
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  Speaker 5: fact that both of them have been out here for
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  Speaker 5: you know, Bland the whole season so far and Micah
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  Speaker 5: for four games this this could be four games if
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  Speaker 5: he misses this week. So yeah, that that's that's a big,
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  Speaker 5: big loss. There's no doubt about it. And the Cowboys
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  Speaker 5: just haven't done as good a job as as you
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  Speaker 5: as you have to do in those situations to replace them.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, that's that's on the It's on the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 5: It's on the ownership and the front office and the
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  Speaker 5: coaches and all of them to to to do that
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  Speaker 5: because you know, injuries happened. So but let's stop mistake
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  Speaker 5: those are those are tough losses there. Mike in Birmingham,
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  Speaker 5: England is next.
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  Speaker 8: Mike Nicking if you caught up on your sleep yet.
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  Speaker 1: Getting there? Getting there? Catching up?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm all right, thank you? Yeah. You know, Nick,
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  Speaker 8: during the bye week, I sort of made my peace
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  Speaker 8: with this season, and actually on Sunday night, we've got
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  Speaker 8: closer than I thought we were going to get. We
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  Speaker 8: had the chance to win it. We probably shouldn't have
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  Speaker 8: been in that position, but you know, we did better
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  Speaker 8: than I thought. But I'm not giving up. We've got
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  Speaker 8: ten games to go and we can get on a run.
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  Speaker 8: But at the same time, I think I know where
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  Speaker 8: we are and is it scheme? Is it injuries? Is
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  Speaker 8: it that we didn't have the pieces in the first place?
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  Speaker 8: Probably all of the above. So my thought, and I
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  Speaker 8: wonder what you think about this is, you know, any
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  Speaker 8: thought of trades or anything like that. I think, let's
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  Speaker 8: keep hold of our draft capital. Let's save as much
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  Speaker 8: cap space as possible. Well the rest of this season, yep,
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  Speaker 8: we might get on a run, we might do wonderful things,
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  Speaker 8: but it's an audition for those players on the edges.
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  Speaker 8: You know, how much do you want it and how
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  Speaker 8: good are you show us? And let's build. Didn't want
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  Speaker 8: to be saying that after week seven, and it would
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  Speaker 8: be lovely to be proven wrong and we go.
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  Speaker 9: On a run.
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  Speaker 8: But just wondering what you think should we be throwing
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  Speaker 8: things in for trades or is it time to look
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  Speaker 8: forward now?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well thanks for the call.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think that that's such a broad question
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  Speaker 5: because every situation is so different, you know. I think
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  Speaker 5: if there is a if there is a player that
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  Speaker 5: makes sense to bring in that can help you right away,
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  Speaker 5: then then I would be okay doing that. Like you said,
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  Speaker 5: it's a long season still and ten games to go,
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  Speaker 5: and not I'm not out of anything, but it's got
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  Speaker 5: to be that that rare situation where that guy for
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  Speaker 5: some reason is on the trade block. Over here, but
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  Speaker 5: he can help you here, and he's not gonna take
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  Speaker 5: three to four or five weeks to get ready.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's the big thing.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you know when they made that trade for
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  Speaker 5: Amari Cooper, I mean he was you know, he's a
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  Speaker 5: very very good route runner, very smart player, understood of
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  Speaker 5: the offense. I believe it was a bye week when
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  Speaker 5: when they did that, so it was able to to
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  Speaker 5: kind of get him up to speed and and that
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  Speaker 5: thing took off. And I think the Cowboys more than anything,
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  Speaker 5: are probably looking at the injured players that they have
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  Speaker 5: to kind of help boost them since there are so
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  Speaker 5: many and so many key players there. So you know,
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  Speaker 5: when when you look at veteran guys that can come
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  Speaker 5: back and help, you know, Micah Parsons obviously they're on bland,
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  Speaker 5: DeMarcus Lawrence here at some point, Brandon Cooks, you know,
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  Speaker 5: maybe Jordan Phillips, sure where he fits into all this,
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  Speaker 5: but that could be one if he was healthy. So
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  Speaker 5: you know, there's some that's probably the route they're going
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  Speaker 5: to go. But but if something made sense that that
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  Speaker 5: could be a plug and play guy that that could
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  Speaker 5: really stop the bleeding in certain areas. I mean I
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  Speaker 5: don't know why you wouldn't consider that, especially you don't
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  Speaker 5: have to give up too much in capital for that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Charles in Austin, Texas.
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  Speaker 9: How's it going.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, you know, it's uh, just going through it the
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  Speaker 10: best that I can, just trying to figure out what
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  Speaker 10: can be done still and uh, what's what's ahead in
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  Speaker 10: the future. But it's kind of a two parter here. Uh,
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  Speaker 10: you know, it seems like we're going through a lot
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  Speaker 10: of the same things over and over again. So I
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  Speaker 10: mean it's it's like, what can we do during this season?
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  Speaker 10: And you know, going from all into a soft rebuild,
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  Speaker 10: it kind of feels more like, you know, we got
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  Speaker 10: to get some more pieces to actually put into motion
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  Speaker 10: what we really need to do maybe next season. So
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  Speaker 10: I was just kind of trying to get your insight
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  Speaker 10: on those two aspects.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, you know, I did the Cowboys ever
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  Speaker 5: say soft rebuild? I mean, like that that's a term
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  Speaker 5: I keep hearing. I don't know if the Cowboys have
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  Speaker 5: ever said that. Now I understand what Jerry said about
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  Speaker 5: all in and still to this day, not everybody understands
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  Speaker 5: I think what what he was trying to say or
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  Speaker 5: his interpretation is just different than what most people consider
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  Speaker 5: for that. But I think, I think what what has
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  Speaker 5: to happen, what the Cowboys are banking on is is
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  Speaker 5: continuing to get this offensive line in a situation where
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  Speaker 5: you know they can actually be good for this team
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  Speaker 5: and not not liabilities. And that's kind of what what's happened.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm and I do think the rookies will grow,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm not just putting it all on them. I
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  Speaker 5: think the combination of this line this is about as
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  Speaker 5: bad of an offensive line as we've seen here for
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  Speaker 5: a long time, just because they went with two young
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  Speaker 5: guys at crucial spots on your line, the center and
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  Speaker 5: left tackle, and they're learning, they're learning as you go here.
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  Speaker 5: Tyler Smith, he's he's fine. Zach Martin has not been
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  Speaker 5: to Zach Martin that we've seen, and and not even
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  Speaker 5: to his standards, Like it's one thing to say, well,
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  Speaker 5: this is the standard of Zach Martin, and now he's
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  Speaker 5: playing here. There's been some stretches where he's played even
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  Speaker 5: below that, and so that's that's that's concerning. We'll see
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  Speaker 5: how if he can turn things around here. And this
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  Speaker 5: is what I would believe to be his final season
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  Speaker 5: with the Cowboys and probably in the NFL. So we'll
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  Speaker 5: see how how how that that goes with him. I
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  Speaker 5: know he's got a back injury. That that's that's not good.
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  Speaker 5: And you can't do anything if you don't have a
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  Speaker 5: back that that you know, and we all know that
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  Speaker 5: just in life again. But he's playing, and he's out
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  Speaker 5: there and he and he he knows he needs to
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  Speaker 5: play better. He said that in the locker room the
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  Speaker 5: last week. Terrence Steele as well, you know, we've seen
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  Speaker 5: too many times where they they've given up some some
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  Speaker 5: big plays and and you know, everybody's got great pass rushers,
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  Speaker 5: and the Cowboys have faced seems like the best ones.
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  Speaker 5: But you know they should have been ready for it
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  Speaker 5: in training camp. I mean, if Micah Parsons is also
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  Speaker 5: in that group, then that's what you that's what you
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  Speaker 5: get prepared for. So and Micaeh was really good in
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  Speaker 5: training camp too, if I remember, all right, let's go
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  Speaker 5: to Bob in Nashville, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, what's going on?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, there's so much we could talk about about the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 7: But I have a question and I was thinking about it.
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  Speaker 7: You know, been a fan for forty some years. But
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  Speaker 7: back in let's say the sixties, seventies, eighties, when did
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  Speaker 7: they start having coaches come to the podium after a
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  Speaker 7: game and talk to the media. And you know, when
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  Speaker 7: did the full access to the players begin or has
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  Speaker 7: this been something that's been in the league for years
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  Speaker 7: or forever?
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  Speaker 5: What are you talking about guys going to the podium
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  Speaker 5: or just open locker.
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  Speaker 1: Room or what.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so you know, like after the game, Mike mccarthiel
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  Speaker 7: talked but park to Dak Prescott right after the game,
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  Speaker 7: so you know, when emotions are really high and where
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  Speaker 7: I'm going at here is like with tray Von Diggs
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  Speaker 7: and stuff. How long has that been going on? It
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  Speaker 7: has been going on since the inception of the NFL,
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  Speaker 7: or was this just something over the last thirty years?
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  Speaker 5: Well, two different things, because you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 5: exactly when the podium's happened. You know, I would say
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  Speaker 5: somewhere in the eighties nineties probably of coaches going to
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  Speaker 5: a potum a podium.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously that's a thing.
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  Speaker 5: I mean there's a shot of Tom Landry talking like
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  Speaker 5: in the locker room with some reporters after the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 5: so way back then. So I'm just saying it's evolved
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  Speaker 5: over the years when the media got you know, more
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  Speaker 5: and more where.
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  Speaker 1: It's just too much space.
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  Speaker 5: But but I'll say that the Trademond dig situation is
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  Speaker 5: a little different because this was like him going outside
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  Speaker 5: of the locker room and and you know, and that's
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  Speaker 5: that's also a product. He's still there, Bob. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: am all right, because I'm gonna get your take on.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure you have a follow up to this as well.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm just saying that social media and cell phones
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  Speaker 5: and things like that quick quickly getting the information of
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  Speaker 5: what is being said and who you need to confront.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that's obviously different just based off of social
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  Speaker 5: media and cell phones and things like that. And Trayvon
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  Speaker 5: came outside of the locker room uniform still on and
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  Speaker 5: uh and decided to do that. And I think he
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  Speaker 5: knows that's not a good look. But I've heard him
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  Speaker 5: talk about it sense and he hasn't necessarily apologized to that.
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  Speaker 5: But it's not a great look for him. Is he
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  Speaker 5: warranted in what he's you know saying? Sure, but still
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  Speaker 5: not not the best look to do that.
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  Speaker 7: But yeah, no, and I agree with you that that
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  Speaker 7: you know, yeah, I mean, Mi Jong, he learns, you know,
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  Speaker 7: it's a learning moment. But my point of bringing that
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  Speaker 7: up is that I think it's really harmful to the
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  Speaker 7: players and coaches to have to answer questions right after
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  Speaker 7: a game, because you know, emotions are high, feelings are raw,
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  Speaker 7: and I know with social media, with the TV contracts
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  Speaker 7: and all that stuff, the media wants access. But there's
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  Speaker 7: got to be some give here where you know, these
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  Speaker 7: players and coaches don't have to sit there and take
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  Speaker 7: some Some questions are very good, but some are very
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  Speaker 7: not good. And it's really irritating sometimes to listen to
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  Speaker 7: these questions right after a game, like you know, what happened, Well,
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  Speaker 7: we lost, you know, And that's I think why Belichick
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  Speaker 7: and Parcels was always so, you know, tend to be
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  Speaker 7: very say very few words. So I don't know why.
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  Speaker 7: I just wonder what your take is on that. And
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  Speaker 7: I know you're a media guy, so you probably want
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  Speaker 7: access all the time. But I just think sometimes it's
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  Speaker 7: counterproductive because sometimes coaches and players can say things in hindsight,
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  Speaker 7: a couple of days later, they think, man, why did
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  Speaker 7: I say that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I mean that that's a very good question.
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  Speaker 5: And it's a very good topic and it's and it's
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  Speaker 5: one and the reason why it's good. Bob, Thanks, thank
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  Speaker 5: you for the call. I appreciate, appreciate that different perspective.
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  Speaker 5: And and this is where it's tricky because it's it
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  Speaker 5: toes the line. There is a ten minute cooling off period,
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  Speaker 5: so it's not right after the game emotions and all that.
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  Speaker 5: And let's let's also be honest about this part too.
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  Speaker 5: You're talking about the interviews and stuff like that, and
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  Speaker 5: right after the game emotions are high. Again I'm not
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  Speaker 5: finger pointing here because it's very general, but when you
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  Speaker 5: see players after the game, smiling, laughing with the other team,
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  Speaker 5: taking off the jersey, signing it on the field, and
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  Speaker 5: you know, walking off with another team's jersey and stuff
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  Speaker 5: like that. Every player is different, but I'm saying it
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  Speaker 5: happens a lot. So they seem pretty cooled off at
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  Speaker 5: some at that point. And and again, you know this
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  Speaker 5: particular one with with Trayvon, he he kind of you know,
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  Speaker 5: he came out. I think what it happened was is
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  Speaker 5: he was alerted to certain things. I don't know if
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  Speaker 5: he went and just searched things. I think he was
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  Speaker 5: told look what the people are saying, and he you know,
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  Speaker 5: then then he responded to it as well. The questions
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  Speaker 5: about what happened and stuff like that. Yeah, I mean it.
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  Speaker 5: It does get kind of weird at times when you're
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  Speaker 5: asking players what happens first, even the coach, you know,
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  Speaker 5: your offensive line, he's not going to tell you that
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  Speaker 5: he wants to look at the tape. He's not going
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  Speaker 5: to throw any player under the bus, especially if he
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  Speaker 5: hasn't seen the tape. So so it's it's kind of
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  Speaker 5: tough sometimes to get a good answer, But you want
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  Speaker 5: those emotions, you know, And that's what's that's the two
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  Speaker 5: sided thing with the media. That's the power of the press,
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  Speaker 5: because the media will say, well, this guy was boring.
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't ever give you anything that says this. But
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  Speaker 5: if he does give you an emotion, oh my god,
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  Speaker 5: you know what, why would he say such a thing?
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  Speaker 5: He should apologize for that. So, you know, the media
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  Speaker 5: a lot of times, I think we we are guilty
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  Speaker 5: of asking for more raw emotion and really good answers,
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  Speaker 5: and sometimes when you get it, then it's then you're
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  Speaker 5: like you're shocked of like, why would a guy say
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  Speaker 5: something like this? That's why that's this has been going
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  Speaker 5: on for a long time. I don't even know if
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  Speaker 5: I'm making sense in that answer. I think the point
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  Speaker 5: of it is is that there's really no right, right
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  Speaker 5: or wrong answer there. You know, the media, the media
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  Speaker 5: ask questions, the guys in the media. There's certain people
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  Speaker 5: that we see and everyone has an opinion of somebody
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  Speaker 5: else and that's a dumb question, or mine was a
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  Speaker 5: dumb question, or what's this guy saying?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it happens all the time and players. And
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  Speaker 5: I'll say this about the Trayvon situation. I said it
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  Speaker 5: yesterday on the radio. Be real careful when you're criticizing
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  Speaker 5: a player, especially on defense, because you don't know what
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  Speaker 5: the assignment is all the time. I learned that with
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  Speaker 5: the Roy Williams long long time ago, people would love
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  Speaker 5: to pile on about Roy Williams, just like they like
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  Speaker 5: to pilon about Trayvon Diggs. Everyone you know, needs these
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  Speaker 5: we need a scapegoat, I guess. And it's always real
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  Speaker 5: cliche to say that about Trayvon and his tackling or whatever.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: I think the part that Trayvon was upset about is
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: that he played a pretty good game.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: The other night he played well.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: There wasn't a lot of talking about what Trayvon is
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: doing and is getting in there and making tackles and
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: stuff like that. I've never had a problem really with
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: with the way he plays, what they're asking him to do,
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: what they paid him to do. I don't I don't
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: really fault him. And if people want to want to
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: disagree with that, that that's fine, but I don't. I
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: don't necessarily agree with that. I thought the play in
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: question was was fine. I thought Trayvon did what he
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: was supposed to do, made the play. So I think
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: that's what he was kind of upset about. And the
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: whole situation was was was bad. Uh, And in my opinion,
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: I think the reporter got exactly what he was wanting
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: and he continues to get that. I didn't like the
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: way some of all that kind of went down, but
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: you know, you can't ever control that. Everyone's got their
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: own opinions on how they deal with that. Uh, let's
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: go to Chuck and Bridge City, Texas.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Chuck d Hey, Nick, Hey, Chuck.
• 18:39
  Speaker 11: So yeah, on that game. I don't know if y'all
• 18:44
  Speaker 11: listen to the broadcast, I know you're at the games
• 18:46
  Speaker 11: but they brought up the it was National tat Ends
• 18:49
  Speaker 11: Day and they were saying at one point like, who's
• 18:52
  Speaker 11: going to get a Kiddle or or or our guy Ferguson. Well,
• 18:57
  Speaker 11: obviously it was Kittle because he showed up and had
• 18:59
  Speaker 11: a huge game. Seems to have a career game every
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: time he plays this And uh, I can't stand that
• 19:05
  Speaker 11: guy because he wore that shirt you know that said
• 19:08
  Speaker 11: f Dallas last year.
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: So that.
• 19:14
  Speaker 11: Just frustrating because you want to stop him and he
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: obviously he was their biggest player, and he kept making plays, yeah.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: And well hard to watch. He put that.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: I put a lot of that on the scheme too,
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: you know. I mean there's you know, and there's there's
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: ways you can cover him. You know, you can try.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: You know. Here's what I didn't like.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: They had three cornerbacks active for the game, and they
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: got a ton of guys on the practice squad that
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: they could have elevated if.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: They wanted to.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: So because of the injury situation that they had, and
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: and also just they decided to put Booth inactive, so
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: they didn't have a lot of options there already going
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: into the game. My point is that you've got you
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: want to take out Kittle, put a corner on him,
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Put put you know, Diggs or you know a on him.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: You probably won't have that that kind of production. But
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: then what happens to the other guys, And they didn't
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: have a lot of help there. So I don't know
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: if I love the way that was. There was one
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: guy that could really beat him and that was Kittle
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: and he certainly did. Yeah, so that that that's frustrating, yes.
• 20:21
  Speaker 11: And the other thing I know that was a long point,
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: but over Shawn the stud and that was a highlight
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: for me for that game. Was that sad and he
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: almost could have, you know, put us in his position
• 20:33
  Speaker 11: to win, but it didn't happen. But anyways, he's the
• 20:36
  Speaker 11: stud and that's what I got so.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: For Yeah, agreed, thank you, Chuck.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: I mean, Overshowing is one of those good, young, exciting players,
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: really good player and he's going to get better. He's
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: got the attitude that you want. After the game, asking
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: him about that play and he was like, you know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: he basically in so many words, was like I let
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: down the team. He didn't say I failed the team,
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: but he was like, I let down the team on
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: that play. And you know, you're like, uh, that was
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: that was a really good play. You nailed the quarterback
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: and got him off the field. And he looks at
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: it like, I've got to get him to fumble, you know.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's got the ball in his hands and
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: I and I hit him from the backside. He's I've
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: got to have my technique, has got to get where
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: my arms in there. I got to get the ball.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: And I love that answer because that's a player that
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: that says I didn't do enough to help us win.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: And I don't know if that if that we see
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: that as much anymore. And I'm not just talking with
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: the Cowboys. I'm talking about the whole league. I mean,
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: you see it all the time. Uh, A lot of
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: people worried about themselves, worried about you know what, what
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: what's good for them, where their stats look like and
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: over shown. He's just he's he's kind of a throwback player.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: And again I'm not I'm not saying what players do
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: this or not. I just know for him, he's trying
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: to you know, he's trying to win the game. I mean,
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: and that's the biggest thing for him. But when it
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: doesn't happen, I mean Overshown always talks. He always stands
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: up there, does it, faces the music. You know you
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: can you can get you know, good quotes out of
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: him right after the game, and and and you know
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: he's he's pretty honest about it. So I liked that
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: answer from him. Yes it was a great play, but
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: he knows, you know, they didn't win, and that was
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: one of those that you know, you could have you
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: could have knocked the ball out. And I don't know
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: how he does doesn't fumble to one of those plays.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: It's reminded me of the Jeff Heath sack against Aaron
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Rodgers in that playoff game in sixteen, where somehow Aaron
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Rodgers held onto the ball and then ended up making
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: a great play afterwards. But you know, he was hit
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: so hard you would expect the guy to fumble. It
• 22:49
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• 22:51
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• 22:53
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  Speaker 5: can focus on that as well. Rob in Vegas is next.
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: Rob.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: What's up?
• 25:29
  Speaker 13: Hey?
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Nick?
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Hey? Rob? What's up? Man?
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: We Well, unfortunately you have to look back because I
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: think what's happening with this team stems from last year
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: and Jerry's unwillingness to fire Mike McCarthy after the Green
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Bay game. And the reason why I say that is
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: you said this, You threw this season away because you
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: didn't want to build a team around the coach that
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: you're going to fire. You came out after that basically
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: the green Bay loss. Yeah, he's got one year left. Uh,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: he's pretty much going to have to get to the
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: NFC Championship to keep his job. But yet you took
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: away so much. You lost your starting center, You're running
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: back to your better pass rushers, your defensive tackle and
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: you never replaced them. You lost your your defensive coordinator.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: You're bringing a guy that now they got to learn,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: So you were setting this guy up to fail this year.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: And what bothers me is if you knew you were
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: going to go into the offseason and you were going
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: to drop ninety something million dollars with dak in CD
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: and we all felt this was a.
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: Good team, white throw the season away.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: You should have fired McCarthy after last year because you
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: showed that you have no faith in him, because you
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: weren't going to extend him and build around that team
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: from last year, which we all felt was very good.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: But instead he was willing to throw this season away.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: And I just find it crazy to invest that kind
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: of money in two players that you basically are going
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: to lose a year of productivity. And the only way
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: those contracts make sense is you have to win a
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: super Bowl, you know, and so does you know Buffalo
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: and Philadelphia, those teams that are dropping that kind of money.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: The only way that makes sense is you got to win.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: You have to win a super Bowl. But that's my
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: feeling he threw the seasy because there was no way
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: he's That's why they're not going to add any players.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: And it makes sense why a players. Now, the new
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: coach that comes in, he's got to have to say
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: and how this team is going to be built, and
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: that's why they're just going to ride it out.
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: That's why you hear him.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Say, all, we're going to look at the young guys.
• 27:51
  Speaker 9: Of course you are.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: You got no choice, that's all you got. So it's
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: just I really have never seen a really good team
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: just throw the following year away.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: I haven't either, purpose I haven't either, and I still
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: have not. I don't, So you didn't.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know whether they threw the season away. I don't.
• 28:13
  Speaker 13: I don't.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: They're throwing it away right now.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: But you have Wait a minute, you don't agree by
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: him not extending Mike McCarthy.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: What was he saying he did that? That doesn't that
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: doesn't throw in the season away?
• 28:25
  Speaker 13: What if he was okay?
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: But he set him up for failure, don't.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: I don't think he set him up for failure. I
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: think I think that the I don't think he set
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: him up for failure.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Well, who did he didn't bring in anybody?
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: You don't not replace.
• 28:41
  Speaker 13: You don't study law.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: You act like they had them. You don't replace people
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: that you lose in free agency.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: You don't. You don't replace those guys like like, but
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: you didn't.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: You didn't even you brought in a rookie Setter.
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: Was there any of.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: Those moves that they should have made? I mean any
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: of those moves? Seriously? You you you can say this
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: stuff now. Do you think they should have paid ten
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: million for be honest? Do you think they should have
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: paid eight million? Or for Pollard? Do you think they
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: should have done all those or Durrance any of those
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: moves that he made?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Do you really know what they should have done?
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: I would have paid. I probably would have paid darnz oldsru.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Fifteen million dollars. No, you wouldn't have robbed. You would
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: not have paid ar darm from fifteen million a year.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Guy.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: You know, we could say what we want about Darns Armstrong,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: but he's the only guy to get sacked. The Marcus
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Lawrence is gone after this year.
• 29:27
  Speaker 13: I get it.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: But there's no way with Sam Williams here. There's no
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: way that you would.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Have paid if william is a head case?
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: So are you?
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: So?
• 29:35
  Speaker 10: Am I?
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Where all are? I mean? You know what I'm saying.
• 29:39
  Speaker 13: Is what I'm saying is you know that Mike McCarthy
• 29:44
  Speaker 13: was set up for failure.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: He was already basically said you got one year.
• 29:50
  Speaker 13: Make it work with this. I'm going to give you this. Yes,
• 29:53
  Speaker 13: it's not going to be as good as the team
• 29:54
  Speaker 13: as last year, but I expect you to do more.
• 29:57
  Speaker 13: I expect you to get further in the playoffs. What
• 30:00
  Speaker 13: a worst team, and if you do not, you're fired.
• 30:03
  Speaker 13: You should have fired him last year. You should have
• 30:05
  Speaker 13: brought in Bella, Chuck.
• 30:06
  Speaker 9: Or whoever you are going to begin.
• 30:08
  Speaker 13: At least he would have been been able to.
• 30:09
  Speaker 11: Build on that team.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: You just threw this year away.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I don't agree with that, but
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: I mean that's certainly your opinion. Thank you Rob for that.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: All right, let's keep let's keep going here. We've got
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: Randy in California.
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: Hey, what's up, Nick? How's it going good?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
• 30:29
  Speaker 14: I'm doing fine.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: Hey.
• 30:31
  Speaker 14: I want you to ask if you can answer something
• 30:32
  Speaker 14: for me real quick, and I can go on with
• 30:35
  Speaker 14: my point. When they add void years in these players contracts,
• 30:39
  Speaker 14: that too, like spread out that cap, Yes.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: Exactly what it is to spread out like the money
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: the bonus that they're giving them, which the bonus is
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: part of the guaranteed money, because that's what all the
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: players want now, is what's the guaranteed money? And you
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: have a guy bonus. Obviously that's guaranteed. But the best
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: way to do that is to spread it out into
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: avoidable years so that your cap hit isn't especially a
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: year cap hit right now is not as is not
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: as big.
• 31:05
  Speaker 14: Right, So so for like interesting, because like Jalen Hurts
• 31:08
  Speaker 14: has like a void year twenty twenty nine ninety seven million,
• 31:12
  Speaker 14: So why don't we do something like that with DAK
• 31:14
  Speaker 14: and CD?
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 31:15
  Speaker 9: Oh?
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: They are you sure that that they're not? I mean
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I haven't looked at them, but I'm not yet.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure that's that's the same type of model.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, think of it like this, Zach,
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: how much does he make in the year sixty million
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: a year? Well, he's not, I mean what he made
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: when he signed the deal, him and CD both.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: It lowers the cap.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: Well why do you think that does sixty million a
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: year lowers the cap? It's because of those voidable years
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: that they pushed everything out and actually this year is
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: not not as much. So they they're they're doing the
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: same type of games as as the Eagles and all
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: those teams are as far as like when it comes
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: to signing deals like that.
• 31:55
  Speaker 14: Okay, because I look at their voidable years, I didn't
• 31:57
  Speaker 14: see like a mouse, you know, masses amount of money
• 31:59
  Speaker 14: down going down the roads until like stay twenty thirty four,
• 32:02
  Speaker 14: twenty thirty five. So I was wondering, if you, like,
• 32:05
  Speaker 14: I said, if you'd like they restructures Zack deal for
• 32:08
  Speaker 14: next year, because I think it's capital xtter is like
• 32:10
  Speaker 14: eighty nine million, and you bring it down, you can
• 32:13
  Speaker 14: create next year. They can create about like they can
• 32:15
  Speaker 14: get to like one hundred million in cap space. So
• 32:18
  Speaker 14: with me saying that this team's always been like, let's
• 32:21
  Speaker 14: draft and developed, draft and develop, Like that's fine, that's
• 32:24
  Speaker 14: a fine model. But you've been drafting and developing since
• 32:26
  Speaker 14: he drafted that. Martin's about to retire and you haven't
• 32:29
  Speaker 14: even got PA, you haven't got to the NTY Championship.
• 32:31
  Speaker 14: So you have to do something a little bit different.
• 32:33
  Speaker 14: All the other teams do something different. They use free
• 32:35
  Speaker 14: agency a lot better than you do, and get and
• 32:39
  Speaker 14: and uh, you know, and draft and I know, I
• 32:41
  Speaker 14: know they say they don't, you know, you pay good
• 32:43
  Speaker 14: players at you know, great money and average players right,
• 32:47
  Speaker 14: good player money. But I mean that they pretty much
• 32:49
  Speaker 14: do the same thing. I mean they they gave Tyron
• 32:51
  Speaker 14: Steel about you know, eighteen his captain is eighteen million?
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: Is he?
• 32:55
  Speaker 14: Is he a great player? Because that sounds like pretty
• 32:57
  Speaker 14: good tackle money right there?
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: You play average Terrence Steele?
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Or Steel? Uh? Is it eighteen million they get tapped against?
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: Is?
• 33:10
  Speaker 14: I think next year will be eighteen Yeah, about eighteen million?
• 33:12
  Speaker 14: And they can save and if they cut them post
• 33:14
  Speaker 14: you one, they can save like I don't know, like
• 33:16
  Speaker 14: nine million or something like that.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: That's yeah.
• 33:19
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I say, hey, I want to get your thoughts,
• 33:22
  Speaker 14: you know, your thoughts on that where you push it
• 33:24
  Speaker 14: down and you can you know, you can actually go
• 33:27
  Speaker 14: for it for like a little bit of window and
• 33:29
  Speaker 14: just let your fans go like, hey, we don't get it.
• 33:31
  Speaker 14: These are years that we put a lot of this
• 33:32
  Speaker 14: money back. We're gonna be a very bad team, so
• 33:35
  Speaker 14: just you know, roll with it.
• 33:37
  Speaker 9: Yeah, And I quite.
• 33:38
  Speaker 14: Frankly, I think a lot of people would actually appreciate that, like,
• 33:40
  Speaker 14: you know, saying, Okay, we're gonna have a three year
• 33:42
  Speaker 14: window and then we're gonna be you know, crummy for
• 33:44
  Speaker 14: two years until we get out of this gap situation
• 33:46
  Speaker 14: and pretty much start over. Yeah, So well I have
• 33:49
  Speaker 14: to get your thought thoughts, go ahead.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: No, go ahead, now, thank you for the call, or Andy,
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: I appreciate that good call. And you know, again, that's
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: a when you're talking about the cap, and I mean
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: I I have a good understanding I think of salary
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: cap and the structure of it. I mean, I wouldn't
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: last one day up there trying to.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I got distracted here.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: I see Noah Brown getting interviewed on the on the
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: TV because of the catch that he made. That's I
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: still can't believe that Washington won that game like that.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: But I have a good understanding of the of the
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: salary cap. But again, when it comes to the avoidable
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: years and how they structure this and how they make
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: this and roll this over, No, obviously I don't even
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: and I don't I don't even try so much. That's
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: why I never you don't ever hear me say they
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: have this much cap space or whatever, because it's it's
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: always fluid, it's always changing, and there's reason why they
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: have so much they you know, they when you have
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: a lot of injuries and you have to keep bringing
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: in guys, bringing in this veteran, bringing this guy, I mean,
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: elevating a player that that all costs money.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: It costs way more than people ever ever know, you know.
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: So anyways, I say all that to say, like, like
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: I think the Cowboys are positioning themselves for for for
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: next year as far as like trying to save some
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: money for next year. Next year's cap is going to
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: be really challenging a lot more than it is this year.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: And so that's why you see some of the cap
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: space that they have. I'll say one more thing about
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: free agency and draft and all that, that the cop
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: the teams that are having all this money in free
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: agency are not drafting. Well, that's why they have the money,
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: and that's why they have the need.
• 35:40
  Speaker 15: Uh.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: The Cowboys have drafted way better than other than other teams,
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: and they have to sign those guys. But but no
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: one ever considers that to be a good Oh well
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: we signed our own guy, Like that's great. What about
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: other players? You know, they're drafting well and they're signing
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: their own guys. But you start drafting, you know, my
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: smith hasn't panned out. Right now, We'll see about Tyler Guiden.
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: You know, I think when I think when you see
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: teams not drafting as well, uh, maybe they hit a
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: hit a rough Patch. That's where you're probably going to
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: see a little bit more free agency. But I, you know,
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: I would be fine with changing the model a little
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: bit and at least attempting on some more on some
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: more free agent guys. I know that's not hasn't been
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: their plan, but like Randy said, you know, it's been
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: a long time. Uh, maybe maybe they should change that
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: a little bit. I would be fine with seeing that
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: if they could, If they could go that route. All right,
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: let's go to Dylan Northport, Florida.
• 36:40
  Speaker 16: And some of the contracts stuff real quick. They built
• 36:42
  Speaker 16: in levers next year for re structures, built in back
• 36:45
  Speaker 16: and see these contracts that it puts another eighty eight
• 36:47
  Speaker 16: million in free cap space. But like you said, it's fluid.
• 36:49
  Speaker 16: They got a lot of guys to sign next year.
• 36:52
  Speaker 16: So I have a really strong feeling they're going to
• 36:54
  Speaker 16: extend MIC up right at the end of the season.
• 36:56
  Speaker 16: I don't think they're going to play this game of
• 36:58
  Speaker 16: wait until the line second time around. That's going to
• 37:01
  Speaker 16: free up cap space next year, because you do, I
• 37:03
  Speaker 16: think for a twenty one million dollars hit. But they
• 37:06
  Speaker 16: don't normally participate in for agency. They have way too
• 37:08
  Speaker 16: many needs not to and they'll have some cap space
• 37:12
  Speaker 16: depending on what they do with their guys that are
• 37:14
  Speaker 16: up for deals next year. So they've got a participating
• 37:17
  Speaker 16: for agency next year in my opinion on that.
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: And here's the thing, you're right about that they also
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: have like twenty something guys, twenty two to twenty three
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: guys maybe that are going to be unrestricted free agents.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: So I think you're right. I think they'll participate in
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: free agency. We might see it more than we have
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: last in the last few years because they may not
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: be signing all of these guys, you know, like like
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: this isn't this isn't the most talented roster that they've
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: ever had. So you know, just because you're an unrestricted
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: free agent for this team doesn't mean there's not a
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: better opportunity over here. So I think they're going to
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: be more active and probably less active signing some of
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: these guys that are up for new contracts.
• 37:57
  Speaker 16: One hundred percent agree, one hundred percent agree. And regarding
• 38:00
  Speaker 16: the Dak regression, I know Rob feels a certain way
• 38:04
  Speaker 16: about that, very sionarrong opinion. You know, I put a
• 38:07
  Speaker 16: question up on Twitter asking you know, why has Dak
• 38:09
  Speaker 16: seemingly regressed essentially, was my question. The comments are just
• 38:13
  Speaker 16: outrageous and the feeling that people have is just outrageous.
• 38:16
  Speaker 16: This guy here says sixty million a year, two thirty
• 38:18
  Speaker 16: one guarantees new daughter, new house, about to get married.
• 38:21
  Speaker 16: He doesn't have to try anymore. Like how nonsense of
• 38:24
  Speaker 16: a take is that? Like I can sit here and
• 38:26
  Speaker 16: turn the film on. I can show you about one
• 38:28
  Speaker 16: hundred reasons by Dak's not successful. Some of it's on him,
• 38:31
  Speaker 16: some of it's on the offense, Like we can talk
• 38:33
  Speaker 16: football and understand why Deck's not successful, all this other
• 38:37
  Speaker 16: bs that's floating around out there, about these intangible things
• 38:39
  Speaker 16: that he has a family. Oh, I like our NFL
• 38:42
  Speaker 16: quarterback's not supposed to get married and have children, have
• 38:45
  Speaker 16: families once they are in the NFL. Like that's just nonsense, man,
• 38:48
  Speaker 16: And it kisses me off. Like I'm a pretty chill dude,
• 38:51
  Speaker 16: but like those kind of takes really set me off
• 38:54
  Speaker 16: because it's nonsense. It's nonsense talk, and I can't stand nonsense.
• 38:58
  Speaker 16: So I had to get off my chest today. And
• 39:00
  Speaker 16: I appreciate you taking.
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: Ask you this though, Dylan, I mean, go ahead, you
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: you posted that on on like the storyliners.
• 39:07
  Speaker 16: No, no, it was just my normal, my normal page.
• 39:09
  Speaker 9: But they kind of blew up, you know.
• 39:11
  Speaker 16: But right, it's mostly stupid stuff.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: But right, but is it?
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, and that's that's the thing, Like, that's what
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: that's the kind of stuff that that blow it blows
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: up because when you throw stuff out there like that
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: and then and then those are the responses.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not faulting you for it, But all I'm.
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: Saying is is that what what do you expect especially
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: on like a Twitter or Instagram or whatever, because that's
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: what you know, what I'm saying when you start out there.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Of course, you.
• 39:38
  Speaker 16: Know, talking to my friend Ben about this stuff. And
• 39:41
  Speaker 16: then the really crazy knowledgeable guy, I mean he works
• 39:44
  Speaker 16: for a certain football company and he's you know, I
• 39:46
  Speaker 16: won't mention anything, but really smart dude. And you know,
• 39:50
  Speaker 16: we're talking about people that blow up on Twitter. The
• 39:52
  Speaker 16: content creators, These guys that do all the stuff on there,
• 39:55
  Speaker 16: they don't really know like a ton about football. They're
• 39:58
  Speaker 16: they're good at talking and they' most takes that people
• 40:01
  Speaker 16: agree with, and they could be the most nonsensical takes,
• 40:03
  Speaker 16: but people agree with that. Confirmation bias, nonsense, need you
• 40:06
  Speaker 16: challenge it. Well, somehow you're you're the bad guy. You're
• 40:08
  Speaker 16: the evil guy, even though it's complete blowney, Like most
• 40:11
  Speaker 16: of the stuff that's not there is complete nonsense, has
• 40:14
  Speaker 16: something to do with the sport, and it's it's intangible
• 40:16
  Speaker 16: opinions that are just stupid takes, honestly, But those are
• 40:19
  Speaker 16: the people, those are the posts that blow up. And
• 40:21
  Speaker 16: I guess I gotta do more of that if I
• 40:22
  Speaker 16: want a large following. But I really don't, not just
• 40:25
  Speaker 16: not at the risk of sounding like an idiot, right,
• 40:27
  Speaker 16: it just is what it is.
• 40:28
  Speaker 9: You know, I'm not Steven A. Smith, I guess for
• 40:30
  Speaker 9: a good reason.
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: Well, you're right, thanks for the for the call. I mean,
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: you're right about some of those takes.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: You people throw that out there all the time, and
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: that's what a lot of the media has become now.
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: They just throw out some range, should the Cowboys trade
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: for this former first round receiver?
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: And you're like, which guy who's that click? You know?
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: And it's like some guy, you know, Jerry Rice or something,
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: who's you know, out of retirement. I'm just saying, it's like,
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: but they do that stuff and then they'll be like, well,
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: I mean, I just post a question, you know, I
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: just asked the question, and it's like, oh, okay, yeah,
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: O great. So we call them pigeons. Pigeons they just
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: kind of fly in and then you don't really see
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: them afterwards, but you know they were there.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: All right, it's got to break here on Cowboys storyline.
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  Speaker 5: got time for some more calls. We're gonna go to
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: Tamra in Des Moines, Iowa. Tamra, what's up.
• 43:02
  Speaker 15: I'm here here, been here for a long time, for
• 43:07
  Speaker 15: a while, yeah, quite a while. Sorry, it's all right,
• 43:10
  Speaker 15: you know, it's you know what, no I know, but nobody.
• 43:18
  Speaker 8: It's all good.
• 43:21
  Speaker 15: So I have a bad thing to talk about you
• 43:23
  Speaker 15: and not gonna like this one that you know. I
• 43:26
  Speaker 15: always come in with a couple of things. So first
• 43:29
  Speaker 15: thing is, I know this is against the rules and
• 43:32
  Speaker 15: against the law, but I don't exactly hate the Niners
• 43:37
  Speaker 15: because Party, he Party is their quarterback. He is from
• 43:42
  Speaker 15: Iowa State. I'm a big Iwa State fan, so he
• 43:46
  Speaker 15: out there. Yeah, y'all can y'all can stab me and
• 43:50
  Speaker 15: do whatever you want, but I can't not like him.
• 43:54
  Speaker 15: And so there we go. And he looked really rock star.
• 43:58
  Speaker 15: And also the old time I don't like him is
• 44:00
  Speaker 15: when he's playing against my Cowboys.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Sounds like you do though, I mean that sounds like that.
• 44:05
  Speaker 15: Didn't I like, I have to like him a little bit.
• 44:09
  Speaker 15: I mean, he's just a tiny little guy. You can't
• 44:12
  Speaker 15: not like him. I'm sorry.
• 44:14
  Speaker 13: I don't know.
• 44:14
  Speaker 15: Maybe you don't like him.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: At all, but.
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: He played well in the game. But it's not about
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: liking dislike it that that doesn't doesn't matter to me.
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: I mean, but you know, it's a it's a cool story.
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: It's a he's a cool story until he.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Won't be, you know.
• 44:30
  Speaker 15: I know. And if he comes from your team, you
• 44:33
  Speaker 15: and like I was stayed, I was stay, we don't
• 44:36
  Speaker 15: have anybody. So yeah, I'm just I'm Signy's like, you
• 44:41
  Speaker 15: have to. I'm seriously, you just have to like him. Okay,
• 44:44
  Speaker 15: So now back, Oh yeah I did, except for the
• 44:51
  Speaker 15: whole popping that whole side the side down.
• 44:59
  Speaker 8: He was crazy.
• 45:00
  Speaker 15: Yeah, you don't do that, you don't rage. That was
• 45:03
  Speaker 15: the Yeah, they canceled that. They don't even have that
• 45:07
  Speaker 15: events anymore because of him. Anyway.
• 45:12
  Speaker 13: Anyway, Yeah, I got stories.
• 45:14
  Speaker 15: Okay, So here's the thing I called last week and
• 45:18
  Speaker 15: I talked about I don't know if you remember me
• 45:20
  Speaker 15: that much, but that's okay because I totally remember you.
• 45:24
  Speaker 15: I've talked about who who brings the thing to the table?
• 45:29
  Speaker 15: Is it you know, is it the coaches or is
• 45:34
  Speaker 15: it the players?
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Executing?
• 45:35
  Speaker 15: And I said, of distractions, that's where I was coming from,
• 45:39
  Speaker 15: and youth. And so my husband he popped in this
• 45:43
  Speaker 15: week and he's real quiet. You love my husband. He's
• 45:46
  Speaker 15: the quietest guy in the world. He knows so much
• 45:49
  Speaker 15: about football. I've learned so much from him. And he said, Hony,
• 45:53
  Speaker 15: you were right about both things. He's like, they're both robs.
• 45:59
  Speaker 15: The distraction too many distractions or disruptions or whatever would
• 46:06
  Speaker 15: I use, and then also execution.
• 46:09
  Speaker 13: It is both.
• 46:10
  Speaker 15: He's like, he's like that coach is going to get
• 46:12
  Speaker 15: fired probably, and he's like Dak Prescott played like crap,
• 46:18
  Speaker 15: and Okay, I'm gonna pop up because you're probably gonna
• 46:21
  Speaker 15: yell at me. I know, I know where you're coming from.
• 46:24
  Speaker 15: I know you have to you have to represent them,
• 46:27
  Speaker 15: and I understand, but you have to understand where we're
• 46:30
  Speaker 15: coming from too, just like I could say pretty is
• 46:33
  Speaker 15: real nice and you know Irvin, you know he he
• 46:38
  Speaker 15: cancel the event, but to get what I'm coming from, Like,
• 46:42
  Speaker 15: we're not wrong here, Hey, I appreciate how kind.
• 46:49
  Speaker 8: You are to everybody like you.
• 46:50
  Speaker 15: Let us speak our voice and say are like you
• 46:54
  Speaker 15: understand we're angry and mad right now, and I appreciate.
• 46:58
  Speaker 11: That very much.
• 47:00
  Speaker 15: All right, let's jump off off.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Thanks for the call.
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: I'm not I'm not even sure where she was going
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: with everything there, but thank you for the call. And
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: I I do understand that. That's that's the thing, Like
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: I understand exactly what you guys are coming from because
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: I've been there and I still I'm still there. Like
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: you don't have to be a fan of the same team,
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: the same situation to understand. If somebody comes up and
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: says talks bad about the Cowboys or whatever. My first
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: question is always like, who's your team? And they say
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: I don't have a team, Well, all right, you can.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: You can definitely get the hell out of here. That's
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: why I I'm not going to engage any conversation of that.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: If you're like, oh, this is my team, you know,
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: the Steelers are my team, or the Jets or whatever
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: it is, you know, fine, you have a team. Cool,
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: you can talk about that that that's fine. And so
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: I do understand, and I have a team. I have
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: a team in college obviously, the Cowboys, like you know that,
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: that's our team in different ways now, So I understand
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: exactly what you're saying. And I would never say who's
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: right or wrong or whatever. If you're talking about distractions
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: and the tours and things like that, and then how
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: anything that happens Sunday night, we'll see. I mean, like,
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: that doesn't make any sense, you know that has That's
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: not their problem in the third quarter. Their problem is
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: that they didn't adjust to anything. They just went out
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: there and played. And the forty nine ers said, why
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: don't we do this, Let's put kittle on these guys,
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: and nobody can cover them and listen to this and this,
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: and then you know, and and it worked, and the
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: Cowboys had ran out of time to make any any comeback,
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: which was really never gonna happen anyways, because they weren't
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: the better team. So anyways, your opinion is your opinion.
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: I've said that a thousand times, and I don't you know,
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: I don't ever try to change it. It could never
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: try to change it. But I certainly have mine. And
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: so all right, let's go to Gavin and Oklahoma City
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: is our last caller.
• 49:00
  Speaker 9: Hey, Nick, I come to you today with a perspective
• 49:04
  Speaker 9: and not really a question. I just want your thoughts
• 49:07
  Speaker 9: on it. And it might be a little long way
• 49:10
  Speaker 9: that I'm gonna try to get it out as fast
• 49:11
  Speaker 9: as possible. So the finger pointing in Cowboys Nation, I
• 49:17
  Speaker 9: understand it. We're all frustrated. I'm very, very frustrated and disappointed.
• 49:21
  Speaker 9: But I also want to challenge the thoughts of Cowboys
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: Nation here when you start to put blame on the
• 49:30
  Speaker 9: front office, let's start with the front office. This team
• 49:34
  Speaker 9: is obviously a draft and developed team. And if you
• 49:38
  Speaker 9: want to go, get Derrick Henry, if you want to
• 49:40
  Speaker 9: go get you know whoever that's high dollar. You're changing
• 49:45
  Speaker 9: the whole team's philosophy, and we're just not in a
• 49:47
  Speaker 9: position to do that right now unless we just want
• 49:50
  Speaker 9: to go through Cap Hill and you know, low up
• 49:53
  Speaker 9: the team. I really think it's very shortsighted for us
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  Speaker 9: as fans to think that Jered and Steven Zones just
• 50:01
  Speaker 9: sit on their hands and they're a bunch of idiots
• 50:03
  Speaker 9: and they drool on the falls. These guys make informed decisions,
• 50:06
  Speaker 9: they have people helping them make these decisions, and they
• 50:11
  Speaker 9: just simply I think this season believed in some of
• 50:15
  Speaker 9: the young talent. I think they believed in Rico doubt
• 50:17
  Speaker 9: Or I think they believed in Jalen Tobert. I think
• 50:21
  Speaker 9: they believed in all these people to step up, and
• 50:24
  Speaker 9: it just hasn't happened to this point, and the season
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  Speaker 9: hasn't gone as plan. My second fingerpoint I want to
• 50:30
  Speaker 9: address is Dak Prescott. Whenever we signed Dak to the
• 50:33
  Speaker 9: sixty million dollar deal, I knew Cawboy's Nation was going
• 50:36
  Speaker 9: to be very critical of Dak. That's just when someone
• 50:39
  Speaker 9: gets paid. That's how it happens, and that's part of
• 50:42
  Speaker 9: the job, and I understand that. But we also understand stand,
• 50:46
  Speaker 9: and we've been understood, that Dak is not Patrick Mahomes.
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  Speaker 9: He's not alone. He's like ninety nine percent of quarterbacks
• 50:55
  Speaker 9: in this league. You need a good running game, you
• 50:58
  Speaker 9: need players around you step up and do their jobs.
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  Speaker 9: And no, I'm not excusing Dak's performance from Sunday night.
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  Speaker 9: He had a poor game and he made some decisions
• 51:08
  Speaker 9: that I cannot defend. But at the same time, the
• 51:11
  Speaker 9: rhetoric that Dak Prescott is just a terrible quarterback and
• 51:14
  Speaker 9: we need to get rid of him in these garbage,
• 51:16
  Speaker 9: it's just it's just simply untrue. It's just we know
• 51:20
  Speaker 9: what Dak's capable of. Yes, he needs to run the ball,
• 51:23
  Speaker 9: but you know there's only so much he can do
• 51:26
  Speaker 9: as one person. And those are just two things I
• 51:30
  Speaker 9: want Cowboys Nation to kind of think about. Maybe this
• 51:33
  Speaker 9: season just hasn't gone to plan. Maybe Dak Prescott is
• 51:35
  Speaker 9: putting in extra hours in the buyo Weey, maybe McCarthy
• 51:38
  Speaker 9: is putting in extra hours standing up at night who's
• 51:41
  Speaker 9: in sleep trying to figure out how to use this personnel,
• 51:43
  Speaker 9: and maybe it just hasn't gone to plan. And that's
• 51:45
  Speaker 9: tough to accept, but it is what it did, and
• 51:48
  Speaker 9: that's all I got from.
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  Speaker 5: All Right, thanks Kevin, we're running kind of out of time.
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  Speaker 5: That you had some good points. I think there's part
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  Speaker 5: of it. I think it didn't go as planned in
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: certain cases. And yet some of these guys that they
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: counted on, the counting on because they kind of have
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: to count on him. They don't have the money to
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: go and sign a bunch of other players. They've drafted
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: these guys, so they have to play like this was
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: the year Jalen Tolbert, like you said, he's got to play.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they let's.
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  Speaker 5: See what he can do, Let's see what Sam Williams
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  Speaker 5: can do, Let's see what some of these young guys
• 52:19
  Speaker 5: can do, especially some of the rookies. And it hasn't
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  Speaker 5: worked to plan in certain cases. I think the running
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: back situation, I think they were surprised by that. I
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: think that the guys that they evaluated on other teams,
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: other free agents, they didn't think, you know, let's let's
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: they're probably done.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Uh, let's not.
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  Speaker 5: Let's not pay them that kind of money in that
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: market for these guys. Let's go with you know, a cheaper,
• 52:45
  Speaker 5: cheaper running backs here. And it has not worked out.
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: But I don't think it's just the running backs of
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: why they haven't run the ball well. I think it's
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: a combination. But when you look around the league and
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: see the guys and what they're doing, I think, yeah,
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: they probably in hindsight could have changed the you know,
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: their their thought process on that with some of these guys,
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: because I think there's five or six running backs playing
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: on other teams that are that have played really well
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  Speaker 5: this year, probably more than than you know, the expectations.
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: So anyways, good call for sure. Wish you gonna I
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: could address more of that, but we've got to get
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  Speaker 5: rolling here. I've got another show coming up here, Cowboys
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  Speaker 5: Break coming up right now. So uh for Chris Beam,
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  Speaker 5: I'm Nickieman. We will see you guys tomorrow on Cowboys Storyline.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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